All about ski lifts, tramways and gondolas

A new, high speed, detachable 6-pack is on its way to Windham! It will be installed this summer & will be accompanied by state of the art lift access, with RFID ticketing for the 18/19 season. "A Lift" will remain in place, servicing the Bike Park and sky rides summer. pic.twitter.com/f20jvfpO6x

A base-to-summit six-passenger chairlift is coming to Windham Mountain in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The mile-long Doppelmayr system will replace the Whistler triple, a 1983 VonRoll triple with a ten-plus minute ride. A parallel detachable quad called Whirlwind, built by Garaventa CTEC in 1993, will remain in place at least through this summer. Windham also revealed today it will launch RFID ticketing across its seven lifts next season and Doppelmayr now has at least a dozen lifts to build in the United States and Canada this year.

Current Windham Mountain trail map.

The Catskill region has seen a number of big new lifts recently, including a gondola at Belleayre and six-pack at nearby Hunter Mountain. Peak Resorts could build another new high-speed lift at Hunter in 2018, raising the bar for the entire region. Windham’s announcement comes after two very quiet months for new lift news, with hopefully a bunch more to come this spring.

You guys at Mammoth are doing fine. Stratton hasn’t added a lift for 17 years and Tremblant hasn’t added a skiable lift for 20 years. Since eastern skiers are not at all happy with the Ikon Pass and loss of the max pass they need to invest heavily in those ski areas to restore faith in the company.